• Handles@leminal.space
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    11 months ago

    You’re downplaying your own part, in between those two statements.

    Internet rando: “I choose to enable this corporate, repeat privacy offender in strongarming its way into the open, federated web”

    Edit: spelling

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      11 months ago

      How is Threads going to breach your privacy by federating with your instance? How is de federating from Threads going to protect your privacy?

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        11 months ago

        Do you think this is Threads’ final form? Embrace, extend, extinguish. This is what corporations do. Everything is a zero sum game in their minds, and they will act in the best interest of shareholders. That shit has no business here.

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          11 months ago

          I was going to reply but you nailed it. Its about outmaneuvering smaller competitors and controlling the marketplace, and then harvesting user data for profit.

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                11 months ago

                What point was that? If you don’t join Threads, they don’t have your data. They do have everything you publish to the Fediverse though, no matter what you do.

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                  11 months ago

                  Buddy…

                  Its about outmaneuvering smaller competitors and controlling the marketplace

                  Work on your reading retention instead of plastering your one-note hot take all over the convo. This exchange is over.

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                    11 months ago

                    How? Everyone says some form of this, but never gives any details of how they will do that. Or how defederation will prevent that.

                    You are afraid that they will control the marketplace, and then turn around telling everyone to defederate, which just gives them a walled garden marketplace on a silver platter.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah, yeah, parrot the line and then please explain how?

          Extending means making extra functionality that others haven’t implemented, so that your offering is more attractive. You use it to build a walled garden. Defederation just skips that step and does it for them. They don’t even have to extend.

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            11 months ago

            You missed the point of my comment. I don’t need to explain how, I’m sure they’ve got brilliant engineers working hard on it. This is just how capitalism works, Meta isn’t a benevolent force here, their ultimate goal is to make money off users and their data.

            I don’t need to figure out exactly how they will do it to know that they will.

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              11 months ago

              Ah, so just fear mongering and hoping that the fear based knee-jerk reaction isn’t actually playing directly into their hands.

        • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          Embrace, extend, extinguish.

          Serious question: how?

          Second question: why?

          What are the mechanics by which they are going extend or extinguish the fediverse and how would they do that from a technical standpoint? Second, why when the entire fediverse with years of time behind it is a rounding error compared to a product they launched like 6 months ago. Why does Meta give a tiny shit about the fedi compared to TikTok, for example?